Summary
Aleksandar Tišma: Conversations and Interviews II
The literature of Aleksandar Tišma turned out to be an extraordinary lens for reading and interpreting the time in which it was created. Cold, impartial, devoid of illusions, but precise and visionary reading. If we were to put in parentheses everything we know about the war and post-war times until the breakup of Yugoslavia, it would be possible to reconstruct that period using Tišma's interviews. They follow the history of an era, up to the end disturbing for the listeners and readers, and unexpectedly tragic for the immediate actors. In it, not only the writer's personal drama unfolded, but also the agony of two communities, first of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and then of socialist Yugoslavia.
The cruelty of violence flows into Tišma's language, the words he chooses are usually anything but pleasant. Their power consists in causing restlessness and uneasiness, which are necessary in order to bring the readers closer to the atmosphere of existential fear for their own lives, as well as for the lives of others.
(From the preface)
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